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IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS

IMS OMEGAMON to report on overall system health in a manner similar to IMS internal FDBR health checking.

IMS OMEGAMON to report on overall system health in a manner similar to IMS internal FDBR health checking. The IMS internal check, which runs on the active IMS if FDBR capable, checks the ‘Health” of CTL TCB XFP TCB CSTITASK ( DFSCST00 in CTL ) CHK...
about 2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / All components Under review

We request to add user id in the messag id KI2AT430I

Currently there is no logs to identify the user id who has modified the ATF trace. So we would like to have the user id attached to the message ID KI2AT430I , which helps us to identify who modified the ATF trace. In addition to it, we would like ...
2 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Messages Under review

Be able to monitor IMS OTMA tpipes in Omegamon for IMS

Nowadays, OTMA tpipes in IMS have become a critical component in large installations with numerous remote clients. It would be highly valuable to have the capability in Omegamon—both Classic and Enhanced—to monitor OTMA tpipes, including their act...
6 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / All components Future consideration

I would like to see all the messages getting triggered by the situations in one screen with in Omegamon eu 3270 screens and at present the time parameter sends the value in numbers(seconds). It would be great if it comes with the time format 00:00:00

When a situation triggers an ZOSWTO messages to the mainframe Operators which is specified in the ACTION TAB. At present we are writing the ZOSWTO message in the Syslog, SA traps those messages and sends it to SNOW PROD where the MF Ops team monit...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Messages Under review

Be able to issue commands to all IMS systems in a plex at the same time

In the e3270ui need a workspace that allow us to issue commands to all IMS in a IMSPLEX. With the KIPCMD workspace we can only send commands to a given IMS.
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality Future consideration

IMS transactions abends info in the e3270ui

We need in the e3270ui a workspace where we could see information about abended transactions and abend details including process region, abend code, transaction name, abend date/time,..
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality Functionality already exists

Provide Alert capability in Omegamon/IMS Classic for TPIPE QCT

The current alert facility in Omegamon/IMS Classic does not have the capability to inform a user that a particular TPIPE has something queued in it. The QCT field in the /DIS TMEMBER TPIPE command is what we want to be trapped and reported on.
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality Future consideration

Add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON IMS ATF Summary and Detail Records

Please add a 'TRACE_ID' field to OMEGAMON for IMS ATF trace records (Summary and Detail) to facilitate Filtering query results to a particular trace definition.
11 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality Not under consideration

Monitor BMP Checkpoint rate

We would like to be able to set a situation i Omegamon that becomes true when the checkpoint rate for a BMP exceeds the number of checkpoints per second for a given value. In the attribute group for Dependent Regions there is only BMP Checkpoint C...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Other Future consideration